Physics 471, Fall 2009

Text

The a PDF of the textbook is available at optics.byu.edu along with other online resources (such as videos of the labs).

Syllabus

The syllabus is posted here

Homework Assignments

All problems are worth 4 points unless otherwise noted.

1. P1.1; P1.5; L1.11(8pts)
2. P1.7; P1.9; P1.10; P1.12; P2.1; P0.16; P0.17
3. P2.2; P2.5; P2.7; P2.9; P2.10; P2.11
4. P2.12; P3.1; P3.2; L3.4 (8pts)
5. P3.3; P3.10; P3.13; P4.2; L4.4
6. P4.5; P4.7; P4.8; L4.9 (8pts); P4.11; P4.12
7. Two from R16 - R23
8. P5.2; P5.4; P5.5;
9. P5.9; L5.10; R23; (Get started on your Test Corrections, but they aren't due until next Tuesday)
10. P6.2; P6.3; P6.4
11. L6.5; P6.6; P6.8;
12. P6.11; P6.15; P7.1; P7.3; P0.27; P0.28;
13. P7.5; P7.8; P7.9;
14. P7.10; P8.1; P8.2; P8.3
15. P8.4; P8.5; P8.7; L8.8; P8.9 (Note: We will do the lab measurement in class).
16. Two from R40 – R47
17. P9.1; P9.2; P9.3; P9.5; P9.6;
18. P9.7; P9.10; P9.11; L9.12; P9.14
19. P10.3; P10.6; P10.7
20. P10.9; P10.10; P11.1; P11.2
21. P11.5; P11.6; P11.8; P11.10; P11.13;
22. P11.14; P11.15; P11.16; P11.18; P11.19

Grades

Your Class ID (CID) number should have been emailed to you. If you didn't get the email, you can look up your CID number here.

Presentations

Here are student presentations from past years.

• Fermat
• Fraunhofer
• Fresnel
• Galileo
• Huygens
• Kirchhoff
• Maxwell
• Michelson
• Newton
• Planck
• Rayleigh
• Roemer
• Snell
• Young